Lucia Berlin





Lucia Berlin

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born
November 12, 1936

died
November 12, 2004

gender
female


About this author

Berlin began publishing relatively late in life, under the encouragement and sometimes tutelage of poet Ed Dorn. Her first small collection, Angels Laundromat was published in 1981, but her published stories were written as early as 1960. Several of her stories appeared in magazines such as The Atlantic and Saul Bellow’s little magazine The Noble Savage.

Berlin published six collections of short stories, but most of her work can be found in three later volumes from Black Sparrow Books: Homesick: New and Selected Stories, So Long: Stories 1987-92 and Where I Live Now: Stories 1993-98.

Berlin was never a bestseller, but was widely influential within the literary community. She aspired to Chekhov's objectivity and refusal to judge. She has also...more


Average rating: 4.54 · 54 ratings · 5 reviews · 8 distinct works
Where I Live Now: Stories 1...
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Homesick: New and Selected ...
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Angel's Laundromat
4.38 of 5 stars 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1981
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So Long: Stories, 1987-1992
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Safe & Sound
4.8 of 5 stars 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions
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Phantom Pain
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Homesick
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Fragrant Trappings
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“they say a baby's true babtism occurs when hefirst falls out of bed”
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